To imitate Jesus' humility perfectly, we must share in His hidden life, veiling, as He did, everything in us that might attract attention or praise from others, whatever might single us out or make us noticed, fleeing as far as we are able from every mark of distinction. "Ama nesciri et pro nihilo reputare", love to live unknown and reputed as nothing ('Imitation of Christ'-Ch.1: 2-3); by doing this we will become more like Jesus who, being God, willed to take "the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man" (Philippians 2). Jesus himself has taught us how to practice the hidden life, insisting that we do our good works in secret, only to please God, and without ostentation. He tells us also to guard the secret of our interior life and our relations with Him (Matthew 6)~
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